Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > John Fultz <jfultz@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This seems to be a 2.7.0 regression in filter-branch. The bug is reproducible on Mac/Windows (haven't tried Linux) in the 2.7.0 production releases. >> >> Make an empty repo and put an empty commit in the history. E.g., >> >> echo > foo && git add . && git commit -m "commit 1" && git commit --allow-empty -m "commit 2" >> >> Now try to use filter-branch to remove the empty commit. Both of the following methods leave master unchanged, but both worked in 2.6.4: >> >> git filter-branch --prune-empty >> git filter-branch --commit-filter 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' > > Thanks. > > Since there were only 5 changes to git-filter-branch.sh between > v2.6.0 and v2.7.0, it was fairly easy to pinpoint. > > Reverting the following commit from v2.7.0 seems to give the same > result as v2.6.0 for "--prune-empty" experiment. > > commit 348d4f2fc5d3c4f7ba47079b96676b4e2dd831fc > Author: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Nov 6 01:24:29 2015 -0500 > > filter-branch: skip index read/write when possible > > If the user specifies an index filter but not a tree filter, > filter-branch cleverly avoids checking out the tree > entirely. But we don't do the next level of optimization: if > you have no index or tree filter, we do not need to read the > index at all. > > This can greatly speed up cases where we are only changing > the commit objects (e.g., cementing a graft into place). > Here are numbers from the newly-added perf test: > > Test HEAD^ HEAD > --------------------------------------------------------------- > 7000.2: noop filter 13.81(4.95+0.83) 5.43(0.42+0.43) -60.7% > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> OK, is this because git_commit_non_empty_tree() does this to decide that it should skip the commit: git_commit_non_empty_tree() { if test $# = 3 && test "$1" = $(git rev-parse "$3^{tree}"); then map "$3" else git commit-tree "$@" fi } where its parameters when --prune-empty is in use (or when the function is used as the commit-filter), $1 is "$tree", $2 and $3 are "-p" and its sole commit object name $commit (which is read from the revs file, which is an output from rev-list, so it is known to be 40-hex) and tree after the said patch is computed like so: if test -n "$need_index" then tree=$(git write-tree) else tree="$commit^{tree}" fi i.e. the helper does textual comparison between "$FOURTY_HEX^{tree}" and 40-hex from rev-parse "$3^{tree}"? In other words, would the fix be a one-liner like this? git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index 98f1779..86b2ff1 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ while read commit parents; do then tree=$(git write-tree) else - tree="$commit^{tree}" + tree=$(git rev-parse "$commit^{tree}") fi workdir=$workdir @SHELL_PATH@ -c "$filter_commit" "git commit-tree" \ "$tree" $parentstr < ../message > ../map/$commit || -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html